Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for Management Systems Audit Services, Services Relating to Dispute/Claims Advice and Cost Estimation and Quantification Services

Buyer
Transport Scotland
Value
£14,400,000
Closes
4 December 2026
Where
Glasgow, Scotland
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Transport Scotland is setting up a framework, which is a pre-approved list of suppliers, for three types of professional work on road and transport infrastructure projects: auditing contractors' management systems, advising on disputes and claims, and estimating and quantifying project costs. The estimated value is £14.4 million across three lots, and suppliers can bid for one or more of them. Appointed firms can then be given individual call-off contracts, which are specific work orders under the framework, for particular projects.

What the buyer wants

• Complete a Single Procurement Document (SPD), the standard pre-qualification questionnaire, to be considered for the framework. • If shortlisted, pass the tender stage by responding to the detailed tender requirements and award criteria issued to invited bidders. • If appointed, deliver audit, dispute and claims advice, or cost estimation work for specific projects under NEC4-based call-off contracts, and continue to meet the selection criteria until contract award.

Lots

Requirements

Named in the buyer's notice:

What could rule a small business out: The restricted procedure only invites a limited number of pre-qualified firms to tender, based on selection criteria in section II.2.9 that are not set out in the text provided, so a small business that does not meet those criteria at the SPD stage, or that stops meeting them before award, would most likely be ruled out.

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How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

Where to apply

Bids go through Public Contracts Scotland. Make a free account there, then search for this tender's title.

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Questions about this tender? The official notice gives the buyer's contact.

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